it's the financial aspect which i find scary. i've no idea how that will work out.
most of me still thinks that it's a bit like a jungian psychic/UFO invasion from the "alien" far east
thought these remarks i read were interesting with regards to wuhan:
"I'm neither a virologist nor an epidemiologist, but something that hasn't been mentioned in any reports I've read so far - and which I think may be affecting the mortality rate in both Hubei and in China as a whole - is that the Chinese are the world's largest consumers of tobacco.
The country is estimated to have 312 million adult smokers and is in the midst of a lung cancer epidemic on an unprecedented scale (Parascandola and Xaio, 2019). It accounts for nearly one-third of the world's smokers and 40 percent of the world's tobacco consumption. Over half of all Chinese men smoke.
I wonder whether, in the fullness of time, we might discover that the poor underlying pulmonary health of many Chinese patients, particularly men, meant that Covid-19 affected them more acutely than it did patients in other countries and regions where decades of effective public health education has made smoking much less prevalent.
This is not to say, of course, that we shouldn't be doing everything we can to prevent transmission or spread of this virus."
and this
"Not to mention the appalling air quality in many urban centres, in part due to Chinese factories using banned chemicals."
that might explain the high percentages coming out of china - but then italy's death toll is now higher they say...